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Love Story 12
Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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Love Story 11
‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Love Story 9
Jealousy was an accidental sin. Like stabbing your mum in the eye with a fork, while explaining something which you’d forgotten to mention, but she...
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Love Story 8
I agreed to go with Pastor Colin on a mission. He expected me to know what it was without telling me. His silver Ford Escort was more reliable. He...
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a body shouldn't scare
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
a body shouldn't scare undertakers, but hey, resurrection isn't good for business, or is it?
Read full commentPosted in It's My Party (Dead Reckoning series - Part 40)
facial recognition, genetic
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
facial recognition, genetic sampling. Sounds like not too far from home.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Night Chapter 21 A Past Recaptured
I'd rather take my chances
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
I'd rather take my chances with science and a testing of the null-hypothesis. That means researchers try and prove something doesn't work. When they conclude that something does work, they ask further questions and begin anew. Try reading Carl...
Read full commentPosted in Why I'm a consistent and unabashed 'anti-vaxxer'
trains from Victorian times,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
trains from Victorian times, Victorian lines criss-crossing the world. They still rule in some continents. The dinosaurs may return?
Read full commentPosted in They Seem To Be Alive (re-write)
settling in. Old
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2024
settling in. Old establishment and toilet paper. These are the things that made us great.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Night Chapter 19 Settling In
birds are amazing, living
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
birds are amazing, living poetry but much better.
Read full commentPosted in The Bower Flame Bird
Happy is relative unless we
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
Happy is relative unless we're children when it is absolute. Lots of love here.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)
love is in the details.
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
love is in the details. Wonderful.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)
Ariel has wings, but I'm not
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024
Ariel has wings, but I'm not so sure she can play minature golf.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Night Chapter 17 A Dirt Path
Wonderful storytelling. The
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024
Wonderful storytelling. The sense of truth lies within.
Read full commentPosted in Can you play with madness?
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